Feeding apparatus for wrapping machines



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H. ROSE FEEDING APPARATUS FOR WRAPPLNG' MACHINES Original Filed Jan. 13

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HENRY ROSE, DECEASED, LATE OF GAINSBOEQU GH. ENGLAND; BY WILLIAM HEHBY BOSE, ADMINISTRATOR, OF GAENSBOROUGH, ENGLAND.

FEEDING APPARATUS FOR TRAPPING- MACHINES.

Original application filed January 13, 1821, Serial No. 437,025. Now Patent 1,434,152, dated October 31, 1822. Divided and this application filed March 10,1922.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, W ILLIAM HENRY ROSE, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Albion \Vorks, Gainsborough, in the county of Lincoln, England, am the administrator of the estate of HENRY Ross, deceased, and the late HENRY Rosn invented new and useful Feeding Apparatus for lVrapping lilachines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in improvements in apparatus for feeding blocks, or slabs, of sweetmeats, or other material, into wrapping machines, or for analogous purposes, this application being a division of my Patent l'lo. 1,434,152, dated October 31, 1922.

in the apparatus described and illustrated in British Letters Patent No. 20,183 of 1900 and 6,769 of 1905 the blocks or slabs, areplaced in a trough, the bottom of which is constituted by an endless travelling band, or by endless travelling bands, which carries, or carry, the blocks, or slabs, insuccession into position to be transferred, by a rocking arm, into a channel from which the blocks, or slabs, are pushed by another arm, or lever, onto wrappers as they are brought, by therotation of a mould-wheel into position to receive the blocks or slabs, which, tonether with the wrappers, are then forced into moulds, or recesses, (with movable sides and bottoms) in the periphery of the mouldwheel, to which mould-wheel intermittent movements of partial rotation are imparted from the main shaft of the apparatus.

The improvements according to the present invention have for their principal object to make such apparatus capable of more satisfactorily dealing with articles of the character aforesaid having rounded edges and corners and also possibly being of nature liable to adhere to each other, and the said invention consists in providing improved means for feeding the articles to be wrapped (which we will refer to as bonbons) to the mould-wheel in such a manner that the bonbons. on their way to the mould-wheel, are kept in correct position and are, in consequence, more efliciently acted upon by the apparatus into which they are fed.

T will describe with reference to the accompanying drawings, apparatus in accordance with this invention from which its na- Serial 1%. 542,808.

ture and how it can be performed will be understood.

Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 is a plan of sufiicient of a machine, made according to my aforesaid Patent No. 1,434,152 to shew how the present invention can be applied to machinescf the aforesaid kind. 7 7

According to the present invention guards 21 are provided which act so as to prevent the bonbons 7 from rising in the trough through which the band 8 carries the bonbons to the machine, the said guards being preferably shaped as shown so that they obstruct as little as possible the view of the bonbons and being hinged at 21 to the side of the trough so that the said guards bear pen the bonbons (if they tend to ride one upon another) with a weight sufiicient to keep them in position as they are carried through the trough. The guard at 21 is for a purpose like that for which the guards 21 are provided but is fixed and not hinged like the guards 21. The guard 21 is provided with a projection 21 for raising; it, and means are provided for holding the bonbon next in succession to the foremost bonbon in position whilst the said foremost bonbon is moved towards the mould-wheel, the said means consisting of an arm 22, pivotally mounted at 22 on. a bracket 23, secured to the frame of the apparatus, which arm 22 is, whilst the forward bonbon is being pushed towards the mould-wheel, caused to bear upon the upper face of the next succeedingbonbon, this being; effected by a cam 24, secured to a shaft 48, and bearing upon an antifriction roller 26 carried by the said arm. The end of the said arm is preferably provided with a resilient bearing-piece to prevent the bonbons being damaged and to allow for variation of the thickness of the bonbons, which resilient bearing-piece may consist'of a headed plunger, or stem, 27 movable in a socket-piece 28 on the end of the arm 22, and pressed downwards by a spring 27?.

Each bonbon when pushed by the reciprocating plunger 19, from the trough 7 into the channel 20 leading to the mould-wheel is prevented from adhering to and being carried back by, the said plunger, by a hinged piece 29 which bears upon the upper face of the bonbon and, to further prevent such adherence, the bearing end of the pusher may be recessed, or equivalently formed, so that only its edges or a small portion of the said end, Will bear against the bonbons.

What I claim is z- In apparatus for feeding blocks to wrapping machines, a feed trough in combination with hinged guards for retaining and retarding the blocks being fed. said guards including a pivoted arm, a resilient bearing face on said pivoted arm a cam operating said arm, and an element arranged to bear upon the blocks as they are pushed from said trough, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

NILLIAh i HENRY ROSE,

Arl7nin2'strm01 0 f H enrg Rose, deceased.

Vitnesses v V. G. D. CHAPMAN, E. O. GEORGE. 

